A clandestine photograph of TRANSIT co-founder Evelyn Farny as she performs the world premiere of “Panorama” by composer Angélica Negrón on Thursday, February 2, 2012 at Kent Gallery in New York City. She also performed pieces by Alexandra Gardner, Caroline Shaw, and György Ligeti.
The works by Hans Haacke and Charles Gaines on the walls behind her are part of “Mind the Gap,” a Kent Gallery exhibition inspired by the ICI’s book Searching for Sebald with works that ‘operate between and within signs in order to discover, tease out, and make manifest meaning that is neither obvious nor orthodox.’ The Gaines piece (right) draws its inspiration from Georges Bataille, the subject of the ICI’s first full-length publication. These ‘Sebaldian’ moments no longer surprise us. But we were inspired by the full-length exhibition catalog produced solely for the internet. We applaud this impulse to remove commodity from acts of thought.
The exhibition, which includes work by Joseph Beuys, Walid Raad, Mark Lombardi, Alfredo Jaar, Heide Fasnacht and others, runs until February 25, 2012
